BIKINI ATOLL

For years the two-piece swimsuit was available and nobody thought about it. However, the French car engineer Louis Reard for unknown reason designed the smallest ever two-piece in 1946.  It was a sensation and he called it Bikini.

At first when the Bikini swimsuit came on the market some countries banned it. The real break through came when Brigit Bardot wore a bikini in the 1956 film “And God Created Woman”. Today, it is not thought about it any more and is never missing in any holiday suitcase

Again for unknown reason he named it after the small island Bikini Atoll. It lies in the North Pacific and was a US Navy camp. The US Navy tested atom bombs there for years. Since we mentioned that it also crossed my mind regarding air pollution.  Would it not be more likely that the Ozone layers be damaged through repeated Atom Bombs.

Instead the poor public was blamed for using hairsprays polluting by CS gas which surely never left the bathroom. Another terrible offender was the humble fridge. At one stage, even the cows were accused of being guilty partly creating the Ozone Hole by passing winds. The publicity was so strong that the poor old cows nearly had their last day.

Coming back to the real history of Bikini Atoll which is part of the Marchall Islands. It is now 60 years since the US hydrogen bomb tests were made on these islands.

The exiled islanders are far too scared to go back.

It was claimed that the nuclear arms race during the cold war was the reason and necessary.

The 15 tonnes megatons Bravo test on the 1 March 1954 was thousand times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It exposed thousands in the surrounding area to radioactive fallout.

In 1946 the Bikini Islanders were told to evacuate because of the first tests were planned.

In 1970 the US scientists declared the area safe again and the some islanders went back.

In 1978 it was discovered that they developed an indigestive problem caused by the high level radiation after eating the food grown on former nuclear test sites. Was it just for scientific records what the result would be when they told the people it was safe?

US nuclear explosion tests in the Marshall Islands stopped in 1958 after 67 tests. Did it have to 67 tests and each with huge radioactive fallout? When you consider the impact on the Japanese fishermen, 60 miles away it was sheer madness and no responsibility at. The US has a lot to answer for regarding pollution of the land but also of the Pacific Ocean. .,

The UN report in 2012 stated that the effect will be long-lasting. It should be more than enough of a lesson that nuclear power poison never deteriorates.

When will the big powers ever accept that?

An 80 year old fisherman Matashichi Oishi who was with 23 fishermen on the Japanese boat “Lucky Dragon” 60 miles away said: “I remember the brilliant flash in the west. The frightening sound that followed and the extraordinary sky which turned red as far as I could see.”

The result of the crew’ health is well known. They suffered of cancer and other causes. Kuboyama suffer acute organ malfunctioning seven months after the test and effect was from being 60 miles away.It also indicates how far the fall out went and polluted the sea around it.  

The US government still refuses full compensation to those people as well as the Islanders.

This description of the old fisherman convinces that the hole in the Ozone layer was caused by these nuclear bomb tests.

The Ozone hole suppose growing smaller it also confirms because these tests had been stopped.

It was not only the US but also other big nation done their testing. What for is inexplicable?